Mass Effect: Andromeda will be out Q1 2017

No Mass Effect: Andromeda this year. EA has said in an investor call that the fourth main Mass Effect game will be released during the first quarter of 2017, which spans January to end of March.

That period represents the fourth quarter of EA's financial year - which begins April, ends March - and blockbusters earmarked for this period tend to come out as close to the end of March as possible. This allows maximum time in development while keeping the release within the financial year.

Mind you, Mass Effect 2 came out at the end of January and Mass Effect 3 at the beginning of March, so there's hope for a marginally earlier launch.

Mass Effect: Andromeda tells a story in an entirely new area of space, and one entirely separate from commander Shepard. But there's still a lot we don't know about it. We cobbled together everything we do know in a separate article (and video, below).

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